[MPlayer-users] Significant audio delay on an avi file with blank audio

[The Wanderer]

Sébastien Mazy wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> 
> I have an avi file which seems to have "blank audio" during its first
> 14 seconds. However, mplayer plays immediately the audio. The problem
> can only be reproduced if you do not seek the stream (with -ss or a
> keyboard shortcut).
> 
> 1)
> mplayer blank_audio.avi
> => the sound starts to play immediately and thus audio and video
> aren't synchronized, there is no sound during the last 14 seconds of
> the video file.

Have you tested what happens with the -delay option?

What happens if you start playing with the -ss option and then try to 
seek back to before the sound began? Does it get out of sync, play video 
without audio (and remain in sync), or refuse to seek back that far?

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